2 Browning’s sonnets notes

Here are some study guide notes from the Top Notes series as PDFs which may be helpful. Also the sonnets as Word files.


The Petrarchan sonnet form Browning uses had some particular rules about rhythm (iambic pentameter) and rhyme schemes. You may want to get your head around these terms so as to use them convincingly.











Some Sonnet I comments
http://www.suite101.com/content/barrett-brownings-sonnet-1-a130285

Some useful comments on XLIII as well
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/Sonnet43.html